Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Lorenzo Chávez
Lorenzo Chávez is a painter based in Colorado who paints the American West and Southwest in both pastels and oils. His pastels have a nicely painterly feeling, and his oils have a textural quality that, between them, give both a sense of continuity of style. His work has a character of light, air and color…
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Eye Candy for Today: Marchal’s Penelope
Penelope, Charles-François Marchal In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A wonderful eye for the textures of the fabrics and the yarn.
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The Inscrutable Eye: Sargent watercolors at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
For those in the Boston area who missed the show of Sargent Watercolors at the Museum of Fine Art, (which I mentioned here on
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The Flowering of Edo Period Painting
The Flowering of Edo Period Painting: Japanese Masterworks from the Feinberg Collection is an exhibition that just opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Drawing on the Museum’s deep collection of Japanese painting, it showcases masterpieces of ink painting and scrolls from the 17th and 18th centuries. 90-plus paintings will be exhibited…
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A few highlights from the 1660s
Wikimedia Commons (see my Lines and Colors post here), the huge, mostly public domain image repository associated with Wikipedia, has a nice aspect to its organization that lets you view a broad variety of art organized by year, decade or century. These are just a few paintings from the (apparently splendiferous) decade of the 1660s.…
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My latest articles on painting for Answers.com
I’m continuing to write articles on painting for Painting.Answers.com, some on materials and techniques, some on painters and paintings from history. Here are my most recent articles, the first three of which use a new slideshow format. John Singer Sargent’s “Portrait of Madame X”: Masterpiece and Scandal Beautiful Highlights from the History of Watercolor Painting…